Major Additions - iPhone / Android / webOS / WP7 / BlackBerry for vB - Tapatalk

** Over 23000 forums installed!!**


TipB 5 Stars Review: http://www.tipb.com/2010/09/28/tapat...ne-app-review/

YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWnkYF72nLE


What is Tapatalk?

Tapatalk is a vBulletin mod that allows your users to browse your forum using a native mobile application. Tapatalk supports iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, webOS and Windows Phone 7. It provides super-fast access to your forum and allows your members to participate more in your forum while on the go.

Why Tapatalk?

• Only one MOD installation to support all mobile devices including iPhone, Android, WebOS, Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry.
• Forum API - build your own app or server-side integration with well-documented Tapatalk API, enjoy quality forum app from third-party developers, beyond what Tapatalk internal team can offer.
• Well-tested. This MOD has been installed in over 23000 forums, including some of the very large forums with 2 million members with over 10,000 online users. This app is designed to scale
• Tapatalk allows you to put your sponsored banner into the app so you don't lose potential revenue **NEW**
• Analytics support - you get too see how many users are accessing your forum from the Tapatalk app

Installation Instruction:

Installation is easy. It does not change any of your forum settings or overwrite any
of your existing forum code and configuration. Simply follow the procedure below:

Step 1

Create yourself an account at http://www.tapatalk.com/plugin.php. Once you have logged in
to the website, you can download the largest version. If you are not sure you are
using the latest version. Download a new one from
http://www.tapatalk.com/download.php. You can follow the rest of the instruction
from tapatalk.com onward if you want. Otherwise read on:

Step 2

Upload the zip package at the root of your forum system.
Unzip the package. You should see a directory called "mobiquo" inside your forum
system root directory. For example, if your forum URL is http://www.mysite.com/forum,
it should be placed at http://www.mysite.com/forum/mobiquo/.


Step 3

Login to Administration Control Panel (admincp) in your server.
Choose "Style Manager" under "Styles and Templates".
Choose "Edit Template" in your current template.
Click "Edit" in your current template
Choose "headinclude" in the list, click "Edit"
At the bottom of the editor, insert the following line:
<script type="text/javascript" src="mobiquo/tapatalkdetect.js"></script>
Click "Save".


Step 4

Visit http://www.tapatalk.com/addforum.php to enter your forum URL and upload you forum
logo there. It will allow end-user to find his way to your forum using the Tapatalk
app.

Step 5

Visit http://www.tapatalk.com/manageforum.php to confirm the setup so you can select
whether you want to publish your site to the public listing or you want to set it up
so it is complete private to other end users.

Screenshots:

Showing New and Unread Thread with Avatar and Number of reply:


Facebook Integration: Gather more members from Facebook by letting users publish topics to their Facebook feed.


Images are thread are converted to thumbnail and allow full-screen viewing


Ability to see Who's Online and what they are doing:


Ability to search by topics and posts:


Ability to place banners within the app:


Ability to upload images directly from Android and iPhone!:


Ability to view how Tapatalk is used via our Analytics console

[yellowpeter]

Originally Posted by mhackl

I have noticed that I have been getting randomly kicked out of the app ever since I upgraded to the new app.

We notice there are some instablility issues in full screen image viewing - and are working into a fix.

Are you able to consistently reproduce the problem? If so, please let us know and likely we can fix it right the way. :up:

[Trek]

I just signed up, installed and bought the iPhone app. Worked perfectly, the first time! Excellent work on this, it makes browsing my forums much easier as they are far from designed for mobile.

About the only thing missing right now, I'm the forum owner/admin and I'd like to be able to do some of the administration functions. Still though, what is there, works very nicely!

[Trek]

Ohh one other thing that would be really nice, support for BBCODE. =)

[yellowpeter]

Originally Posted by Trek

I just signed up, installed and bought the iPhone app. Worked perfectly, the first time! Excellent work on this, it makes browsing my forums much easier as they are far from designed for mobile.

About the only thing missing right now, I'm the forum owner/admin and I'd like to be able to do some of the administration functions. Still though, what is there, works very nicely!

We're glad that you like it!

The app support only few set of basic BBCode now including url, quote, and img, we will add few more along the way. The admin feature unfortunately is lower priority as only a subset of user will find this feature useful. Eventually we will get it done though.

[mhackl]

Originally Posted by yellowpeter

We notice there are some instablility issues in full screen image viewing - and are working into a fix.

Are you able to consistently reproduce the problem? If so, please let us know and likely we can fix it right the way. :up:

I've noticed that the failure occurs when loading threads, but not any one thread so far. Also, I noticed that the "send" button is grayed out when posting in landscape mode. Many of the threads on my forum have hi-res images. I haven't noticed if this is correlates to the failure or not, but I keep an eye out.

[mhackl]

Request (if possible):

Is it possible to set a default post icon for posts made via tapatalk? I'd like to make an iPhone post icon so that you can see who's using the app.

[yellowpeter]

Originally Posted by mhackl

I've noticed that the failure occurs when loading threads, but not any one thread so far. Also, I noticed that the "send" button is grayed out when posting in landscape mode. Many of the threads on my forum have hi-res images. I haven't noticed if this is correlates to the failure or not, but I keep an eye out.

Do you mean the app just crashed when loading certain threads? Or the app stuck at the "Loading" dialogue?

[yellowpeter]

Originally Posted by mhackl

Request (if possible):

Is it possible to set a default post icon for posts made via tapatalk? I'd like to make an iPhone post icon so that you can see who's using the app.

Do you mean adding an icon within the post content to show the post is sent via Tapatalk? Right now we simply add a signature text (can be turned off though) at the end.

[mhackl]

Originally Posted by yellowpeter

Do you mean adding an icon within the post content to show the post is sent via Tapatalk? Right now we simply add a signature text (can be turned off though) at the end.

OK, I hadn't noticed it. I guess that would work fine.

[mhackl]

I just added anti-leeching code to my htaccess file today and now when I select my site from the forum list on Tapatalk it kicks me out of the app (everytime). Is there a specific domain or ip that needs to be excluded to accommodate for Tapatalk?

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^facebookexternalhit.*$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{http_referer} . 
# Your domain(s) 
RewriteCond %{http_referer} !^http://([^.]+\.)?DOMAIN\.com 
# Your IP address(es) 
RewriteCond %{http_referer} !^http://192\.168\.0\.1$ 
# SE cache and transaltion service exclusions (substitute your own domain name for "themodelhangar") 
RewriteCond %{http_referer} !^http://.*(search|cache|translate).+DOMAIN\.com 
RewriteCond %{http_referer} !^http://images\.google\..+www\.DOMAIN\.com 
# google image IPs 
RewriteCond %{http_referer} !^http://216\.239\.(3[2-9]?[45][0-9]?6[0-3])\..*themodelhangar\.com 
RewriteCond %{http_referer} !^http://rds\.yahoo\.com/.+DOMAIN\.com 
RewriteCond %{http_referer} !^http://aolsearch\.aol\.com/aol/search 
RewriteCond %{http_referer} !^http://babelfish\.altavista\.com/.*DOMAIN\.com 
RewriteCond %{http_referer} !^http://.*gigablast\.com/ 
RewriteCond %{http_referer} !^http://.*searchhippo\.com.*DOMAIN\.com 
RewriteCond %{http_referer} !^http://web\.archive\.org/web/.+DOMAIN\.com 
RewriteCond %{http_referer} !^http://fets.*\.freetranslation\.com.+DOMAIN 
RewriteCond %{http_referer} !^http://client\.sidesearch\.lycos\.com 
RewriteCond %{http_referer} !^http://cc\.msnscache\.com/cache\.aspx 
RewriteCond %{http_referer} !^http://web.ask.com/redir.*DOMAIN\.com 
# Netscape 4 
RewriteCond %{http_referer} !^wy[cs]iwyg://[0-9]{1,2}/http://(www\.)?DOMAIN\.com 
# Synergetics translation 
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^207\.228\.(19[2-9]|2[01][0-9]|22[0-3])\. 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/images/remote.jpg
RewriteRule .*.(mpg|png|mp3|gif|GIF|jpg|JPG|js|css)$ http://DOMAIN.com/images/remote.jpg [R]